HeartMob Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 2017

The HeartMob Privacy Policy explains how HeartMob gathers and uses your data when visiting the platform. This policy is intended to help you make an informed decision about whether to continue using the platform. The Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of Use, and your use of iheartmob.org will constitute your agreement to this Pricacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Summary

You have a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on the platform. We collect very little personal information, and the information we do collect is only shared with the platform moderators and anonymized for researchers with your consent.

Information We Collect

Incident Reporting

When you report an incident of online harassment, you will be asked to provide certain personal contact information, including your name and email address, in addition to certain details about the incident, including the type of online harassment, the incident date, and the online platform on which the incident occurred. Information that may identify you will be kept confidential, and no identifying information will be used without your consent. We will ask your permission before contacting you for more information regarding your incident.

Subscriptions

Once you have signed up for an account on HeartMob you will receive email updates on the activity of your account. Should you wish to no longer receive these emails, please contact us at [email protected]

Web Logs

Like most standard website servers, we log IP addresses (a unique number assigned to every computer on the Internet) in order to improve security, analyze trends, and administer the platform. We may track your movement within the platform, the pages from which you were referred, access times, and browser types. This information may include the browser you are using, the Internet address from which you linked to our platform, the operating system of your computer, the unique IP address of the computer you used to access our platform, and usage and browsing habits. We use this combined information to gauge the effectiveness of our platform, track information for statistical purposes, help diagnose and troubleshoot server malfunctions, analyze trends, track combined user movement, and gather broad demographic information.

Cookies

We use session cookies to only store login information in order to make it easier for you to access our platform.

How We Use Your Information

Incident Reporting

If you report an incident of online harassment on the platform, you have the option of keeping the report private, semi-private, or making the report public.

Private cases will not be available to users of the platform or the public at large. These cases will be available to platform administrators and third parties (such as researchers and Google Analytics) on a confidential and anonymized basis.

Semi-private cases will be made available to users of the platform, but not the public at large. If you choose to make the online harassment semi-private, the incident will be vetter by HeartMob staff before being approved.

Public cases are available to both users of the platform and the public at large(for off-site marketing, or use on the homepage of the platform). If you choose to make the online harassment public, the incident will be vetted by HeartMob staff before being approved.

We will use the information you provide to us to contact you only if you have given us permission to do so. We may also use details of the incident you reported in connection with law enforcement, non-governmental organizations, helplines, research, and/or
other projects with your express permission to do so. However, we will not use personally identifying information without your permission.

Third Parties

We may use third party service providers, such as Google Analytics (to improve the performance of the platform) and researchers (to conduct research on online harassment). We may share your anonymized information with these third parties for those limited purposes with your consent.

Aggregate Data

We may, with your consent, develop, use, and share with third parties information about incidents of online harassment in non-personal aggregate form. This information will not identify any specific individual, but rather will reflect the collective behaviors and demography of the incidents of harassment. This is for research purposes only, in order to learn more about the issue of online harassment.

Legal Matters

When required by law (via court order or subpoena), we may access and disclose your information, any communications sent or received by you, and any other information that we may have about you or your account without your consent. The purpose of this is to prevent or investigate suspected fraud, violations of our Terms of Use, or activity that appears to us to be illegal or may expose us to legal liability.

Choice and Opt Out

If for any reason you are concerned that the personal information you provided to us is not correct, or should you wish to have your email address removed from our mailing list or contact information changed, please contact us by emailing us at [email protected]
We will be happy to review, update, or remove information as appropriate. Note that despite any request for removal of or change to personally identifiable information, we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed or changed.

Important Disclosures, Practices, and Contact Information

Website Data Collection

We do not knowingly allow other parties to collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites when you use our platform and services. We provide information about the opt-out choices we make available.

Your California Privacy Rights

The California Online Privacy Protection Act entitles California customers to request information concerning whether a business has disclosed personally identifiable information to any third parties for their direct marketing purposes and to disclose whether a website tracks and collects personally identifiable information about California residents' online activities.

"Do Not Track" Notice

Because the providers of "do not track" and similar signals do not yet operate according to common, industry-accepted standards, we currently do not respond to those signals. For more information on Do Not Track, please visit www.allaboutdnt.com. California users who wish to request further information about our compliance with these requirements, or have questions or concerns about our privacy practices and policies may contact us at www.iheartmob.org, or sending a letter to us at the following address: HeartMob, 30 3rd Avenue, #800B, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

Third parties may use tracking technologies in connection with our platform, which may include the collection of information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. We may not control those tracking technologies and we are not responsible for them. However, you consent to potentially encountering third-party tracking technologies in connection with use of our platform and accept that our statements under this Privacy Policy do not apply to the tracking technologies or practices of such third parties.

Security

We use industry standard technology, including SSL as well as performing security audits to protect the information we maintain about you. However, despite these efforts, no system can completely guarantee that there will never be unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information, and your use of the platform indicates that you are willing to assume this risk. We will notify users of any security breach.

International Users

The platform is hosted in the United States. If you are accessing the platform from outside the United States, by providing your information to the platform, you are consenting to the transfer of your information to the United States for processing and maintenance in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. You are also consenting to the application of United States law in all matters concerning the platform.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this policy. If we make major changes, we will notify our users in a clear and prominent manner. Minor changes may only be highlighted in the footer of our website.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the practices of the platform, please contact us at [email protected]